18 Mar
2005

Kill Me, Please

I have been at home for a week taking a “vacation” so that my wife can fritter the week away in Cabo San Lucas with her girlfriends.  Why am I at home?  To care for my 4 kids, ages 8-3. Dear, Lord, I love them, but I could just eat a bullet by now.  Have […]

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7 Mar
2005

Dot Net Nuke 3

I maintain the website for my kid’s school and I am sick of marking up HTML by hand.  To solve this, I pulled the latest release of Dot Net Nuke. I haven’t seen Dot Net Nuke for a couple of years, since version 1, in fact.  I am very impressed.  The version that I pulled was […]

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5 Mar
2005

Software Developers as Commodities

I have always thought that as a software developers, we make products. I have taken pride in this, the idea that we actually create something. The something that we create varies from project to project; it may be a web application, a smart client application, databases, middle ware components, whatever. Further, I also believe that […]

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4 Mar
2005

200th Post

This will be my 201st post!  Right on. Does anyone actually read this? I get sporatic comments, but I realize that more people read than leave feedback. So, if you are reading this, leave a comment.  Who’s out there and why are you reading this?

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4 Mar
2005

Telerik

I have been working on a project outside of Healthwise lately and the product that we are building needed some UI enhancements.  I looked to Telerik to provide them.  At work, we have a subscription to the Infragistics Net Advantage control suite in the and the developers really don’t care to use them.  We have found […]

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1 Mar
2005

Unleash It

I knew I wasn’t crazy.  The other day I posted that I was looking for a tool similar to the Copy Project function of Visual Studio that packages an ASP.Net website for deployment by copying all non-code files over to another folder or FTPing them somewhere or something. I found the tool, Unleash IT ( formerly […]

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23 Feb
2005

Visual Studio Tip

Need to generate a properly named app.config file at compile time to go with your test suite assembly? In the Project Properties Dialog of Visual Studio, go to: Common Properties Build Events Post-Build Event Command Line and enter the following: copy $(ProjectDir)\App.config $(TargetDir)\$(TargetFileName).config

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